July 10, 2011

Killings and Mass Rape After World War II

As the Soviet Red Army invaded half of Europe with Roosevelt’s blessing, the Russian soldiers and their Jewish commissars raped more women than had been raped in all European wars combined. The American soldiers joined in the mass rape and in widespread killings of German prisoners of war. More than a million German POWs were killed. 12-15 million Germans were looted of their homes, their possessions, even their clothes, and forced out of their ancestral lands in Eastern Europe and in eastern Germany. One fourth of German farmland was taken. This is the greatest ethnic cleansing in world history.

Their ships, their factories, their farm implements were stolen and brought to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the other victors.

More than half of the Germans who died as a result of World War II were killed in the last few months of war, and in the year thereafter.

(By contrast, when German soldiers did execute civilians, it was in retaliation to attacks from guerrillas. Such retaliation was permitted by the 1928 Geneva Convention. While one may not condone retaliation against civilian town populations, it needs to be remembered that the Germans were fighting a defensive war for their survival and for preventing communism from taking control of Europe. When they failed, atrocities like the ones listed below happened.)

In contrast to the Allies, German soldiers did not rape. Those few who did were executed, like any rapist caught in Germany. Of all the major belligerents in World War II, the German troops had by far the smallest record of rape and looting. In all the occupied territories, German soldiers committed fewer rapes than American soldiers committed on American soil.

Here follows a list of some of the atrocities committed by the pro-Jewish and pro-communist armies. This list is not conclusive.

Rapes and killings in France

In France, the mostly-communist “Resistance” guerrilla killed German soldiers while wearing civilian clothing, illegal according to the Géneva convention. In Ordour-sur-Glane for example, they burned Germans alive in an ambulance. It should be said that German officers sometimes retaliated against the population in towns known to aid the guerrilla – retaliation was legal according to the 1929 Geneva Convention.

In Tulle, the inhabitants reported to German officers that Poles, communist Spaniards and four Russians in uniform had driven trucks over German soldiers who were still alive. On one of the corpses it was discovered that a hole had been drilled through both heels and a rope threaded through. The soldier had been dragged behind a truck this way until he died. Women accompanying the communists had thrown excrement at the dead Germans. Some of the corpses had the genitals cut off and stuffed in their mouths.

When the Germans retreated, the communists in the Resistance could act freely, backed by the Allied soldiers. They started killing countless thousands of “collaborators” across the country, people who had had any dealings with the Germans. They reveled in killing “capitalists”. They attacked women who had engaged in romance with German soldiers, shaved their heads, and forced them to walk in parades as prisoners.

The communists prepared to take power in France, until the returning General Charles de Gaulle organized Patriotic Militias with the purpose of combating them in the streets, something the American and British soldiers would not do.

“It also shows that black soldiers convicted of such awful acts received very severe punishments, while white soldiers received lighter sentences.”

Of 29 soldiers executed for rape by the US military authorities, 25 were black – though African-Americans did not represent nearly so high a proportion of convictions. [A case of “racism”? The author forgets to mention the severity of the rapes and the treatment of the women. The same tactic is used when the higher rates of death sentences for Black murderers in the U.S. are labeled “racist,” forgetting the higher rate of brutality in these murders.]

The fate of German civilians

Often the men were simply murdered on the spot. The women were, almost without exception, gang-raped. This was the fate of girls as young as eight years old and old women in their eighties, as well as women in the advanced stages ofpregnancy. Women who resisted rape had their throats cut or were shot. Very often women were murdered after being gangraped. Many women and girls were raped so often and so brutally that they died from this abuse alone.

Rape was promoted by the commissars running the Soviet Union. This is shown in a directive to Soviet troops from the Jewish commissar Ilya Ehrenburg:

“Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army.”

German General Otto Ernst Remer testified: “I myself saw cases involving women who had been killed, their legs spread apart and sticks thrust in, and their breasts cut off ... I saw these things myself, in Pomerania.”

When the Soviet Red Army invaded Germany in 1944, their subjected the Germans to unthinkable brutality. In towns like Goldap, Gumbinnen and Nemmersdorf, even children were raped before being murdered by Russian soldiers. In “victory celebrations” in towns like Treuenbrietzen, mass executions of up to 1,000 German men were followed by mass rapes of women.

According to a 1989 report by the West German government, 635,000 Germans living in Eastern Europe were killed toward the end of the war. These were ethnic Germans who had been living in Eastern Europe for generations, such as the Volga Germans in Russia, greatly contributing to trade and craftsmanship in the nations they inhabited. Two million Germans were forced out of their homes in the Soviet Union. All they had was taken from them, and they were sent to Germany. At the train stations on the way, women were pulled from the trains, their clothes were torn off, and they were raped by Soviet soldiers.

When the Soviet soldiers invaded Berlin in 1945, one of the largest incidents of mass rape in world history took place. Girls as young as eight were raped by what Roosevelt called “our gallant allies” led by “Uncle Joe,” his way of Americanizing Joseph Stalin. Doctors’ estimates for Berlin alone were 100,000 raped women.

In Berlin stood a charity institution, the Haus Dehlem, an orphanage, maternity hospital, and foundling home. Soviet soldiers entered the home, and repeatedly raped pregnant women and women who had just given birth.

A 50-year-old Danzig teacher reported that her niece, 15, was raped seven times, and her other niece, 22, was raped fifteen times. A Soviet officer told a group of women to seek safety in the Cathedral. Once they were locked inside, the communist soldiers entered, and ringing the bells and playing the organ, “celebrated” a foul orgy through the night, raping all the women, some more than thirty times.

A Catholic pastor in Danzig declared, “They violated even eight-year-old girls and shot boys who tried to shield their mothers.”

The Most Reverend Bernard Griffin, British Archbishop, made a tour of Europe to study conditions there, and reported, “In Vienna alone they raped 100,000 women, not once but many times, including girls not yet in their teens, and aged women.”

A Lutheran pastor in Germany, in a letter of August 7, 1945, to the Bishop of Chichester, England, describes how a fellow pastor's “two daughters and a grandchild (ten years of age) suffer from gonorrhea, [as a] result of rape” and how “Mrs. N. was killed when she resisted an attempt to rape her,” while her daughter was “raped and deported, allegedly to Omsk, Siberia, for indoctrination.”

In Neisse, Silesia, 182 Catholic nuns were raped. In the diocese of Kattowitz 66 pregnant nuns were raped. In one convent when the Mother Superior and her assistant tried to protect the younger nuns with outstretched arms, they were shot down. A priest reported in Nord Amerika magazine for November 1, 1945, that he knew “several villages where all the women, even the aged and girls as young as twelve, were violated daily for weeks by the Russians.”

Sylvester Michelfelder, a Lutheran pastor, wrote in the Christian Century: “Bands of irresponsible bandits in Russian or American uniforms pillage and rob the trains. Women and girls are violated in sight of everyone. They are stripped of their clothes.”

The rapes went on for years, committed by Soviet soldiers and by the masses of Jews pouring into defeated Germany from all over Europe and following American soldiers. Germans were thrown out of their homes and their homes and possessions were given to “Displaced Persons,” Jews. As professional Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal told in his Holocaust book from 1948, former Jewish inmates in the concentration camps, still living in the camps and fed by the Germans, went out at night to rape German women in nearby towns. (When the book was reprinted, this had been erased.)

American rapists in Germany

American soldiers also committed rape against the invaded Germans. A serviceman wrote to TIME magazine for November 12, 1945 “Many a sane American family would recoil in horror if they knew how ‘Our Boys’ conduct themselves, with such complete callousness in human relationships over here.” An army sergeant wrote: “Our own Army and the British Army ...have done their share of looting and raping.”

An Italian survivor of American bombing states that Black American troops, stationed in Naples, were allowed by their superiors free access to poor, hungry, and humiliated Italian women.

An American soldier testified: Hunger made German women more “available,” but despite this, rape was prevalent and often accompanied by additional violence. In particular I remember an eighteen-year old woman who had the side of her face smashed with a rifle butt and was then raped by two G.I.s. Even the French complained that the rapes, looting and drunken destructiveness on the part of our troops was excessive. In Le Havre, we'd been given booklets warning us that the German soldiers had maintained a high standard of behavior with French civilians who were peaceful, and that we should do the same. In this we failed miserably. ... Even G.I.s sympathetic to the victims were afraid to complain and get into trouble, they told me. And the danger has not ceased. Since I spoke out a few weeks ago, I have received threatening calls and had my mailbox smashed.

According to testimony given in the United States Senate on July 17, 1945, when the colonial French troops under Eisenhower’s command, mostly Africans, entered the German city of Stuttgart, they forced German women into the subways and raped two thousand of them. In Stuttgart alone, troops under Eisenhower’s command raped more women in one week than troops under German command raped in all of France for four entire years. (German soldiers, simply put, did not rape. They were executed for that crime.)

A writer for the New York World Telegram January 21, 1945 stated that “Americans look on the German women as loot, just like cameras and Lugers.”

The Germans had been starved through blockades and bombings for years, and were now subjected to further starvation as their industrial equipment, even heavy machinery, was looted for transport to Britain. It was easy for American, British and French soldiers to force German women into sexual slavery, buying sexual favors for as little as a few pennies. They were instructed in writing that marriage with the hated Germans was forbidden, but they were allowed to use them sexually. According to TIME magazine of September 17, 1945, the U.S. government provided these soldiers with an estimated 50 million condoms per month, and graphically instructed them as to their use.

The Christian Century for December 5, 1945 reported “the American provost marshal, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald F. Beane, said that rape presents no problem for the military police because a bit of food, a bar of chocolate, or a bar of soap seem to make rape unnecessary.” … “Young girls, unattached, wander about and freely offer themselves for food or bed. …very simply, they have one thing left to sell, and they sell it. … as a way of dying it may be worse than starvation, but it will put off dying for months – or even years.”

By design, only those German mothers survived and could feed their children who submitted to sexual exploitation by the occupiers. Their men were meanwhile starving in prison camps.

This widespread rape and looting could easily take place since American, Jew-dominated media had declared that Germans were subhuman. In fact, some Jews advocated the extermination of all Germans, so merely raping them and killing a few thousand here and there was considered lenient. Roosevelt’s close advisor, the Jew Henry Morgenthau, had written in his book Germany Is Our Problem (Harper and Brothers, 1945, foreword by Roosevelt) how the German population should be reduced or destroyed through mass starvation. The prominent Jewish writer Theodore Kaufman wrote in 1941 a book called Germany Must Perish, where he called for the extermination of all Germans. These ideas were treated by the Jewish-owned press as acceptable. It was in this atmosphere that German women could be raped and abused at will.

One American soldier wondered why there was no food in the towns near where he was stationed. He was told it was because “displaced persons,” mostly Jews, had taken all the food with them. As they were protected by American and French soldiers who often killed German civilians for fun, there was nothing the Germans could do.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s testimony

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, later a famous anti-communist writer, was a captain in the Red Army and took part in the invasion of Germany in 1945. He wrote home about the atrocities committed by Soviet troops; after the commissars opened his letters in the mail room he was sent to the Gulag. Captain Solzhenitsyn wrote about what he witnessed in the town of Neidenberg:

“Twenty-two Hoeringstrasse. It has not been burned, just looted, rifled. A moaning by the walls, half muffled: the mother is wounded, still alive. The little daughter is on the mattress, dead. How many have been in on it? A platoon, a company perhaps? A girl has been turned into a woman, a woman turned into a corpse…”

Solzhenitsyn later said that “all of us knew very well that if the girls were German they could be raped and then shot.”

The killing of German war prisoners

The Soviet army usually killed German prisoners immediately, or right after they had been questioned. They were often mutilated, such as having their eyes cut out, their noses and ears cut off, and their genitalia cut off. At Feodosoyia, on the Black Sea, wounded soldiers were drenched with water and then left on the beaches to freeze to death

Meanwhile, General Eisenhower ran virtual death camps in Western Europe. In Andernach, 50,000 German war prisoners were held in an open field, surrounded by barbed wire. They had no shelter, no blankets, no coats. They slept in the mud in the cold, wet spring. Because they had nothing to eat they cooked grass for soup. The American soldiers did not give them Red Cross shipments. The Americans had plenty of food and supplies but did nothing to help them. The officers said they were under strict orders from “higher up” not to help the Germans survive.

A guard at Andernach shot down into a group of German women prisoners from a hill. This was common: in other places, guards shot into the prison camps at night, to see how many Germans they could kill. In another camp, a guard told a story of how a woman came with bread and a bottle of wine for her husband inside. The American guard by the gates took the bottle, drank the wine, then shot the woman.

U.S. soldiers read in American newspapers how Germans were subhuman, evil, and worthy of extermination. Articles in the newspaper for soldiers, the Stars and Stripes, played up the German concentration camps, complete with pictures of underfed bodies. (Germany had no food even to feed its own population. But prisoners in the concentration camps were still given more calories to eat every day than German soldiers on the Eastern front.) This served to justify the cruelty that was ordered by the highest command, and gladly carried out by the U.S. soldiers.

On at least one occasion, German prisoners were forced to lie down in the snow without clothes. The American soldiers took turns watching them until they were all dead.

The German prisoners were eventually handed over to the French to serve as slaves for years. At least these prisoners would eventually be released from slavery. Hundreds of thousands of Germans were used as slaves in the Soviet Union until their deaths; many died within a year, while some were still enslaved in the 1960s. Western media wrote nothing of this.

Massacred Germans in Czechoslovakia

In 1945, three million Germans were thrown out of their homes in the German Sudetenland and the rest of Czechoslovakia where they had lived for generations. All they had was taken from them and they were forced to move to what was left of Germany. At least 30,000 Germans were killed, perhaps as many as 240,000, often slaughtered in horrific ways. The murders were usually carried out by the Soviet Red Army and by Czechoslovakian communists calling themselves “Revolutionary Guards.”

In one case, Germans were hung upside down over a fire, slowly burning alive. In another case, a Czech man told of how he saw a whole family of Germans, a father, mother and their children, floating down a river on a barn door. Their hands and feet had been nailed to the wood.

Rape in Okinawa

U.S. soldiers killed more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians, including one third of the population of Okinawa, in the April-June battle in 1945 for the island. After that the rape began, when up to 10,000 Okinawan women were raped. Focus on this war crime was reawakened in 1998 when the bones of three Black soldiers were found on the island. The three were killed outside the village of Katsuyama because they repeatedly came to the village to rape the women. The three armed Marines would come to Katsuyama every weekend and force the village men to take them to their women, who were then carried off to the hills and raped.

Planned gas attacks against Japan

In the last stages of the war, U.S. command planned gas attacks in the invasion of Japan, code-named Operation Downfall. A long-suppressed report from 1945 shows that “gas-attack zones” had been detailed on maps of Tokyo and other major cities, such as Osaka, Yokohama, Kobe and Kyoto. 50 urban and industrial targets, among which were 25 cities, were deemed “especially suitable for gas attacks.”

The attack was planned by the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service on behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bomb planes would release 54,000 tons of phosgene gas, and the U.S. Army report calculated that this “might easily kill 5,000,000 people and injure that many more.”

Rapes in Poland

As the Soviet Red army once again invaded Poland in 1945, Soviet military units were let loose to do as they pleased. They looted throughout Poland and conducted mass rape of Polish women.

In Krakow, the invasion was followed by a wave of rapes of women and girls, to such a degree that the Polish communists installed in the city by the Soviets wrote a letter of protest to Stalin. Poles who tried to rescue the rape victims were shot and killed.

In Silesia, Debska Kuznia, Raciborz, Makowo, Katowize, Zabrze, Chorzow and other cities, both Polish and German women were raped. In Olsztyn in March 1945, almost no woman escaped rape. Girls as young as 9 and women as old as 80 were raped. Sometimes, among the victims were a grandmother, a mother and a granddaughter. Women were gangraped by several dozen soldiers.

A Polish woman who acquired work around the Soviet garrison in Gdansk wrote, “because we spoke Polish, we were in demand. However, most victims there were raped up to 15 times. I was raped 7 times. It was horrible.”

Polish women forced to work in Germany for the duration of the war were subject to large-scale rape. A Polish report stated: “through Stargard and Szczecin, there is a mass movement of Polish people returning from forced labor in the Third Reich. They are the subject of constant attacks by individual soldiers as well as organized groups. Along the journey, the Poles are frequently robbed, and Polish women raped.”

Hungary

At least 40,000 Hungarian civilians were killed in the Soviet invasion of Budapest alone. During the “Siege of Budapest,” 50,000 Hungarian women were raped. Hungarian girls were kidnapped and taken to Red Army quarters where they were gangraped and sometimes murdered. Even embassy staff from neutral countries were captured and raped, as reported when Soviet soldiers attacked the Swedish legation.

Finland

Communist gangs conducted raids into Finland from 1941 to 1944, killing defenseless civilians. Finland was lucky to be the only country attacked by the Soviet Union during the war to prevent an invasion; had the country been invaded, Finnish women would no doubt have been subjected to the same mass rape as in other invaded nations.

Finnish children killed by Soviet gangs

Estonia

At least 130,000 Estonians were either killed or deported by the Soviets, more than third of the population. The Soviets were fought by the Forest Brothers, Estonian veterans of the Waffen SS and militias; these were not completely suppressed until the 1950s.

Lithuania

At least 300,000 Lithuanians were sent to die in the Gulag after the Soviet invasion in 1944, accused of supporting the German liberation.

Latvia

At least 120,000 Latvians were sent to the Gulags, and tens of thousands of others were subjected to Soviet terror.

Yugoslavia

The Soviet Red Army crossed only a small part of Yugoslavian territory, but raped at least 121 women in that part of the country. 111 of these women were murdered afterward. A total of 1,204 cases of looting with assault were documented.

500,000 ethnic Germans were forced to leave their homes where they had lived for generations. 63,635 German civilians died in the five years after the war, most from exhaustion as forced slave labor. According to a 1982 calculation, the value of the farmland stolen from these Germans was worth $7 billion. After inflation, this would be $12 billion today.

Of the one and a half Germans living in the area that came to be Yugoslavia, some 93,000 had served in the armies of Germany's allies Hungary, Croatia and Romania, or in the German army. 23,000 of these lost their lives – half after the war, either as slaves or killed outright. 70,000 Germans who had served in the German army were also killed. Between 1945-1955, another 50,000 died as slave laborers, suffering from starvation and exhaustion.

Slovakia

Civilians were attacked and women were raped in Slovakia as well, causing the Slovakian communist leader Vlado Clementis to complain to Soviet Marshal Konev. The exact numbers of attacked civilians are unknown.

Manchuria, China

700,000 Soviet soldiers occupied Manchuria in northern China. They looted the entire region, both the homes and the industries. A foreigner witnessed Soviet soldiers who were allowed to enter the city of Mukden “for three days of rape and pillage.” The Soviets made it a policy to loot and rape civilians in Manchuria. The same troops had been sent from Germany to Manchuria where they continued to look, kill and rape. They ignored protests from Chinese communist leaders.